Chapter 140 Jian Lai is so lucky
"I do not know."
Ruan Xing looked at him suspiciously, "You don't look like you don't know."
Elder Wen snorted, "If you say you don't know, then you don't know. Why would I lie to you?"
"Okay, forget it if you don't want to talk about it." Ruan Xing played with the key, swinging it back and forth in the palm of her hand as her fingers turned.
She was about to activate the key to see if she could get out when she discovered a serious problem.
A large amount of spiritual energy is required to activate the key.
She can't use it now.
Ruan Xing: ...
I wanted to act mysterious in front of Elder Wen, but now I'm so embarrassed.
In a fit of anger, Ruan Xing threw the key to the ground. Elder Wen, who had been pretending not to care but was actually secretly eyeing Ruan Xing, suddenly shuddered all over and jumped over to catch the key with his agility, not like an old man.
"what are you doing!!"
The old man was shocked and angry when he heard this.
Ruan Xing smiled slightly, "This thing is not an ordinary thing, how can it be broken so easily? Why are you in such a hurry?"
"Who's anxious?" Old Man Wen denied it. "I just saw that your hand was not steady, so I helped you take it."
He handed the key back, but Ruan Xing refused to take it. "I'm giving it to you. I don't know what it's for. Since you know it, just take it."
The sound of the soul-killing insect was getting closer and closer, and Ruan Xing's illusion spell was running out of time. Without waiting for the old man to speak, she turned around and ran out with the box.
Old Man Wen held the key and touched the back of his head with his other hand, puzzled, "What does this kid mean?"
Elder Wen thought to himself that he had already told Qin Taihe how to avoid the Jueling Insect. Since Qin Taihe was still so determined to leave, he must have his own hiding place. Why should he keep him? So he carefully closed the shaky door.
Less than ten minutes after Ruan Xing ran out, her body shrank rapidly into that of a young girl. She found a place, opened the box and crawled in, shrinking her whole body in the small wooden box.
The soul-killing insect outside seemed to be searching for something. It lingered around her box for a while and then left.
Ruan Xing didn't know how long the night would last. The soul-killing insects came in waves, until four hours later, when they gradually stopped moving.
Ruan Xing waited patiently for another hour before coming out of the wooden box.
Under the gray sky, the surrounding environment looked a little more gloomy than yesterday.
According to the time calculation, it should be the early morning of the next day. All the footprints she left when she came here yesterday have disappeared. There is still a thick layer of dust on the ground, and even on the box, there is a layer of dust, which slowly tilts and slides down with Ruan Xing's movement.
If there was so much dust every day, this area would have been submerged in thousands of years.
But she didn't think about it too much. The first thing she did was to call for the sword through the mind link.
She was relieved only after hearing Jian Lai's response.
That’s great. Jian Lai’s soul is in the Mo Sui, which should be an isolated state for the Jueling Insects. They cannot cause any harm to Jian Lai.
More importantly, Jian Lai also brought her new good news.
If he had known earlier, he would have found a way to get Jian Lai out in the previous simulations. How could he be so lucky? Ruan Xing had come in three times by himself, but he hadn't encountered any useful information.
After thinking for a few seconds, Ruan Xing instructed Jian Lai, "Come over to my side and find the old man from yesterday. Follow him and see where he is going and what he will do with the key."
Since Old Man Wen didn't want her to know what the key was, she could just leave it to him and leave. Maybe Old Man Wen would not be able to hold back and do something with the key. Although Jian Lai couldn't use the Ghost Escape Technique now, he was used to hiding things. He had no heartbeat and no breathing. He was a dead man. He couldn't use his spiritual power here. Old Man Wen might not be able to detect the Yin Qi on him and know that he was being followed.
After Jianlai responded, Ruan Xing went to the place that Jianlai had just discovered by himself.
According to Jian Lai's description, it was a small mountain with two large circular pits at the center of the top, surrounded by many dead black trees and stone tablets.
There are words on the stone tablet.
This is a very significant discovery, because the only recognizable texts that Ruan Xing has found so far are those plaques on street shops that are made of better materials and are more intact, while other wooden plaques, books, paper, jade slips, and other things that may have written records have all turned into fragments and are unrecognizable.
Ruan Xing set off towards the direction Jian Lai mentioned.
After walking for more than an hour, they saw two corpses on the road again.
Ruan Xing checked over the skeleton and found that the clothes on the skeleton were relatively intact. She could tell that they were the clothes of disciples of the Xuanbing Sect. One of the skeletons was even holding a rusty sword in his hand.
Both of them were in a defensive posture, and most likely they were killed by the soul-killing insects. Before they could react, the insects devoured their souls through their spiritual consciousness until they died.
These two people are probably the dozen or so missing disciples who left Nanzhou...
However, according to the time they disappeared, they had been inside the space-time rift for no more than forty days. How could they have turned into bones and their swords had rusted?
Ruan Xing recalled what Elder Wen said yesterday.
"Take away the most important thing in life... forget that you are a monk..."
The woman's dead son and lost years.
Monk's rusty sword.
So what is the most important thing to Ruan Xing?
She felt like she had grasped a clue, but she couldn't quite figure it out for the time being.
Further ahead is the black forest of dead trees.
Each tree was thick and straight, towering into the sky, but their fallen bark and leafless branches made their appearance remain at the moment of death.
Ruan Xing reached out and touched the uneven bark. The surface was brittle and would fall off at the touch, but the core of the tree, which was engraved with circles of growth rings, was still extremely hard.
Unable to recognize what spiritual plants they were before they died, Ruan Xing continued to walk deeper into the woods. The dirt road covered with insect ash under her feet was a gentle slope gradually rising. The slope was indeed not high as Jian Lai described. She looked back at the ruins in the city and they were still clearly visible.
Finally seeing those sparse stone tablets, Ruan Xing breathed a sigh of relief.
At a rough glance, there are probably hundreds of stone tablets around these two tiankengs.
Hopefully there's some useful information above.
She rested for a short while and then started reading from the first stone tablet.
"I have been an immortal for more than 200 years, and only today am I truly happy."
There was only this one sentence on the entire stone tablet, and Ruan Xing couldn't help but frown.
What does this mean? It makes no sense.
It sounds more like an essay left by a monk.
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(End of this chapter)
